Miriam Bosman of Dierenambulance De Ronde Venen is frustrated along the Ringvaart side when NH speaks to her. She looks at countless dead and air -hoping fish. “In a kilometer long: hundreds,” she says.
Frustrating
A forest ranger called the animal ambulance, after which the fire brigade was alerted, but he can do nothing according to Bosman. “There is so much water and there are so many fish: something has to be done rigorously. Just an oxygen pump makes no sense at all. It is very frustrating.”
Bosman also came into contact with the Water Board. She says that the fish mortality in the Ringvaart has been known to this body for some time. Samples would also have been taken from the water. According to her, no results are yet known.
“It feels so frustrating to leave now, while hundreds of fish are bite to water.”
Oxygen content
Bosman has no idea how this little disaster could have happened. “The oxygen content would be low, you often have that with botulism. But that is never on such a large water. You normally see that in shallow, small ditches. But this is a wide speed, what happened here?”
For now there is nothing else to do but go home. Reluctantly. But Bosman sees it as an investment to put his shoulders to the wheel tomorrow: “I’m going to bed quickly, because I have to make a lot of phone calls tomorrow.”